The 40-year-old Ferguson will look to earn his first combat sports victory in more than six years when he faces social media influencer Salt Papi at Misfits Boxing 22 on August 30th. Ferguson and Salt Papi will battle for the MFB interim middleweight title<\/a> on a card headlined by former UFC stars Darren Till<\/a> and Luke Rockhold<\/a>.<\/p>\n As Ferguson begins this new chapter of his fighting career, fight fans aren\u2019t happy with his decision to continue competing.<\/p>\n Ferguson lost each of his final eight UFC fights, including his most-recent defeat to Michael Chiesa<\/a> at UFC Abu Dhabi last August. His current skid began with a lopsided defeat to Justin Gaethje<\/a> for the UFC\u2019s interim lightweight belt at UFC 249.<\/p>\n During his ongoing losing streak, Ferguson has taken a lot of damage, including in a front-kick knockout defeat to Michael Chandler<\/a> at UFC 274. Ferguson, one of the biggest fan favorites in UFC history, is hearing from some of his most devoted fans after his return fight was announced this week.<\/p>\n Fans took to social media to express their displeasure in Ferguson\u2019s latest comeback attempt.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s so sad Tony please don\u2019t agree to that joke. You were a great!!!\u201d one fan wrote on X.<\/p>\n \u201cWTF are we doing?\u201d another said.<\/p>\n \u201cMisfits is really down bad huh?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat a weird world we live in.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDepressing\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell\u2026it\u2019s been nice knowing Ferguson.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTony is fighting something called \u2018Salt Papi\u2019. What have we become?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFormer UFC star fighting a Tiktoker on Misfits holy hell Tony gotta hang it up.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTony Ferguson getting colded by Salt Papi.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t even wanna think about it but if Tony loses\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDude this is so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTony and Luke [Rockhold] have no business being in a boxing ring.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferguson hasn\u2019t won since defeating Donald Cerrone<\/a> by doctor\u2019s stoppage at UFC 238. His current losing skid was preceded by 12 consecutive wins, including victories over former titleholders Anthony Pettis<\/a> and Rafael dos Anjos<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ferguson was linked to an MMA fight with Dillon Danis<\/a> under the now-defunct Global Fighting League banner before the bout was canceled. Danis and Ferguson could still potentially square off in Misfits Boxing if Ferguson is victorious in his return.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Luke Rockhold returns against Darren Till in pro boxing debut<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Rockhold and Till headline in an intriguing matchup at Misfits Boxing 22. Rockhold returns to combat sports<\/a> after knocking out kickboxing standout Joe Schilling<\/a> at Karate Combat 45 last year.<\/p>\n Rockhold has had mixed results since parting ways with the UFC following a loss to Paulo Costa<\/a> at UFC 278. He lost to Mike Perry<\/a> at Bare Knuckle FC 41 after quitting midway through the second round.<\/p>\n Rockhold and Till will fight for the MFB bridgerweight title.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fight fans aren\u2019t happy with former UFC titleholder Tony Ferguson\u2019s latest attempt to snap his lengthy losing skid.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,3136,3137,638,3138,82,3139,640],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-darren-till","tag-luke-rockhold","tag-mma","tag-salt-papi","tag-sports","tag-tony-ferguson","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tony](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2164973717-scaled-e1751737673516-1024x576.jpg\")
Photo by Josh Hedges\/Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesTony Ferguson vs. Salt Papi draws harsh reviews after Misfits announcement<\/p>\n